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The Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse will hold its 32nd Annual AMERSA National Conference on November 6-8, 2008, in Washington DC.

The meeting will reflect on AMERSA's interdisciplinary strengths and the commitment to disseminate the latest developments in substance abuse education, prevention, treatment and research that challenge all health care professionals.

Confirmed plenary sessions include:

Carlo DiClemente, PhD and Thaddeus Herzog, PhD in a Spicy Debate - Contemplating Change: The Pros and Cons of the Transtheoretical Model for Understanding Changes in Substance Use

John Rodolico, PhD, Terence Keane, PhD and Susan Storti, PhD, RN in a Plenary Panel Session on Combat Stress and Substance Abuse in the Wake of War

Randolph D. Muck, MEd, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, speaking on Adolescent/Emerging Adults

John Cunningham, PhD, Senior Scientist Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, speaking on the Internet and New Media as Tools to Recovery

Jerome Jaffe, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, will be the recipient of the distinguished John P. McGovern Award

Stephanie O'Malley, PhD, Director, Division of Substance Abuse Research, CMHC, will receive the prestigious Betty Ford Award honoring her valuable contributions to the substance abuse field.

Call for Abstracts now open. Submit abstracts and workshops online by May 15.

For further information, visit www.amersa.org or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Feature Articles

A Recovery Revolution in Philadelphia

Cultural
Written by William L. White, MA
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
The City of Philadelphia has a long and distinguished role in the history of addiction treatment and recovery in America. One of the city’s most famous and beloved sons, Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), was the first to articulate a disease concept of chronic drunkenness and call for the creation of special institutions for the care of the inebriate. Philadelphia’s Franklin Reformatory Home for Inebriates (founded 1872) was among the most prominent of early inebriate homes and asylums. When a lay alcoholism therapy movement rose in the early 20th century, Philadelphia was again distinguished by the collaboration of lay alcoholism therapist Francis Chambers and noted psychiatrist Dr. Edward Strecker at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Chambers’ acceptance as an interdisciplinary team member in one of the nation’s most prominent psychiatric hospitals stands as an important milestone in the professionalization of addiction counseling (White, 1998).
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A Model for Successful Medical Methadone Maintenance Programs

Treatment Strategies or Protocols
Written by Kenneth A. Harris, Jr., MD, PhD, Julia H. Arnsten, MD, MPH,
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
Methadone maintenance is the most widely accepted and best studied treatment for opioid dependence (National Consensus Development Panel 1998; Joseph et al. 2000; Ball & Ross 1991). Long-term methadone treatment has been shown to be more effective than short-term treatment (Sees et al. 2000) or non-agonist based treatment for opioid dependence (Mattick et al. 2003), and there is a high rate of relapse to opioid use when methadone is discontinued (Ball & Ross 1991; Dole & Joseph 1978; Anglin et al. 1989).
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Yoga: An Excellent Therapeutic Adjunct for Outpatient Recovery

Alternative
Written by Katie Tandon, MA, CEAP, CACD, LPC, CCAP, RYT
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
For thousands of years, yoga has provided a means for establishing and building upon inner balance. Yoga is the unity of mind and body, of self with life. Thus, the practice of yoga seeks to purify both the physical body and the mental/emotional facility to bring balance to the individual by promoting strength, flexibility and internal cleansing physiologically, as well as mentally seeking calm, focus and the replacement of external referencing with internal referencing for things like locus of control and self-esteem.
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Family - Focused Interventions

Treatment Strategies or Protocols
Written by Andrew T. Wainwright
Thursday, 04 October 2007
An intervention is an act of redesigning the power paradigm by defining the terms for moving forward; outlining livable, manageable boundaries; and using every bit of the leverage at hand to put an end to the addiction-related chaos.
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Untangling the Web: Sexual Addiction in the Internet Age

Sex Addiction
Written by Robert Weiss, LCSW, CAS
Thursday, 04 October 2007
Once considered fodder for daytime talk shows and grocery line literature, today sexual addiction is increasingly acknowledged by psychotherapists and the general public as a legitimate neuro-psychobiological disorder, with specific assessment criteria and a defined treatment method.
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